Quotes About Representation In The Media

#1. The problem with representation in the media has very much to do with the conflicts between groups in the world. If you talk about Iraq, al Qaeda, Darfur, even Taiwan, representation is a part of that problem.

Arthur Dong

#2. I'm such a huge advocate for strong, intelligent representation of women in the media.

Emma Ishta

#3. The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

Rajneesh

#4. There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#5. A thought to ponder: If I couldn't use words to speak, what would my life be saying?

Evinda Lepins

#6. I am committed to creating a vision of the world that reflects how I believe it is: diverse. It is not an effort to diversify media representation, but rather, it comes out of the world I have grown up in.

Jennifer Phang

#7. Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. For a man's counsel cannot have equal weight or worth, when he alone has no children to risk in the general danger.

Pericles

#9. Mainstream media's representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black men's lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.

Aberjhani

#10. One thinks of the failure of representation since 9/11, the proliferation of novels, the media glut, the surfeit of images that somehow slide too easily into a banal repertoire, commodified shock.

Maureen N. McLane

#11. By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

Laura Mulvey

#12. The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.

Tariq Ramadan